MINNEAPOLIS — Forward of a vote that would ban the tush push, the Inexperienced Bay Packers submitted a revision of their rule proposal that will extra broadly ban pushing or pulling the ball provider wherever on the sphere.
Within the proposal’s up to date language, “offensive gamers can’t help the runner besides by individually blocking opponents for him.” The Packers additionally eradicated “instantly on the snap,” within the up to date language.
NFL house owners determined to desk a vote on the Packers’ preliminary proposal on the Palm Seashore conferences in April with a plan to revisit and vote on the proposal in the course of the Minneapolis conferences, which start Tuesday and are scheduled to finish Wednesday.
The tush push, a play popularized by the Tremendous Bowl-winning Eagles wherein a staff traces up a number of gamers behind the quarterback to push him ahead towards the protection, appeared in simply .28% of complete performs final 12 months, in accordance with ESPN Analysis, however the Eagles and Payments ran the play extra typically than another membership. The 2 groups mixed to run 163 tush pushes within the final three seasons, greater than the remainder of the NFL mixed, in accordance with ESPN Analysis. Not solely did the Eagles and Payments run the play essentially the most typically, in addition they had been essentially the most profitable. They scored a landing or achieved a primary down on 87% of their tush push makes an attempt, in accordance with ESPN Analysis, whereas the remainder of the league was profitable on simply 71%.
Whereas the preliminary language seemingly focused the Payments and Eagles by particularly in search of to remove pushing instantly on the snap, the revised proposal is broader in an effort to entice extra groups to vote for the ban. The revised proposal would return the league to the rule it adopted till 2005.
To cross the Packers’ proposal and ban the tush push — and another pushing or pulling play — the league should get approval from 24 of 32 house owners. Sources informed ESPN’s Kalyn Kahler that groups had been break up on the proposal in April, with 16 in favor of Inexperienced Bay’s proposal and 16 towards it.
League house owners are anticipated to vote on the proposal within the coming days, along with different proposed guidelines together with a change to the playoff seeding format, the onside kick and one that will enable NFL gamers to take part in Olympic flag soccer in 2028.
